Multi-modal lie detection method and apparatus, and device

ABSTRACT

A multi-modal lie detection method and apparatus, and a device to improve an accuracy of an automatic lie detection are provided. The multi-modal lie detection method includes inputting original data of three modalities, namely a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and a to-be-detected text; performing a feature extraction on input contents to obtain deep features of the three modalities; explicitly depicting first-order, second-order and third-order interactive relationships of the deep features of the three modalities to obtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word; performing a context modeling on the integrated multi-modal feature of the each word to obtain a final feature of the each word; and pooling the final feature of the each word to obtain global features, and then obtaining a lie classification result by a fully-connected layer.

CROSS REFERENCE TO THE RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based upon and claims priority to Chinese PatentApplication No. 202110001041.2 filed on Jan. 4, 2021, the entirecontents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The embodiments of the application relate to the technical field of dataprocessing, in particular to a multi-modal lie detection method andapparatus, and a device.

BACKGROUND

Traditional lie detection techniques detect lies by means ofcontact-type physiological signals such as skin electric signals, ECGsignals and EGG signals. However, such lie detection methods are oftenlimited by the degree of coordination of testees, and thus cannot detectlies very accurately. With the development of computer science andtechnology, non-contact lie detection methods based on audios and videoshave emerged and will be widely applied in the fields of education andfinance in the future. Existing non-contact lie detection methodsextract features of different modalities by a deep neural network,integrate the features of the different modalities by stitching, andperform context modeling by a recurrent neural network to obtain a liedetect result eventually.

The existing techniques have the following defects: the extractedfeatures of the modalities are simply stitched, and high-orderinteractive relationships between different modalities is neglected, sothat the lie detection effect is unsatisfying; in addition, thelong-term modeling effect of the recurrent neural network is poor, whichalso makes the lie detection effect unsatisfying.

SUMMARY

The embodiments of the application provide a multi-modal lie detectionmethod and apparatus, and a device to improve the accuracy of automaticlie detection.

In a first aspect, the embodiments of the application provide amulti-modal lie detection method based on recurrent neural networks anda self-attention mechanism, the method comprises:

inputting a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and ato-be-detected text, wherein the to-be-detected audio, theto-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text are three differentmodalities;

performing feature extraction on the to-be-detected audio, theto-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text to obtain word-leveldeep audio features, word-level deep video features and word-level deeptext features;

explicitly depicting first-order, second-order and third-orderinteractive relationships of the word-level deep audio features, theword-level deep video features and the word-level deep text features toobtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word;

performing context modeling on the integrated multi-modal feature ofeach word to obtain a final feature of each word; and

obtaining a lie classification result according to the final feature ofeach word.

Optionally, performing feature extraction on the to-be-detected audio,the to-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text to obtainword-level deep audio features, word-level deep video features andword-level deep text features comprises:

acquiring, by a text alignment tool, alignment information of each wordin the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text;

extracting the word-level deep audio features from the to-be-detectedaudio by a pre-trained audio feature extraction network according to thealignment information;

extracting the word-level deep video features from the to-be-detectedvideo by a pre-trained video feature extraction network according to thealignment information; and

inputting the to-be-detected text to a pre-trained text featureextraction network to extract the word-level deep text features from theto-be-detected text.

Optionally, extracting the word-level deep audio features from theto-be-detected audio by a pre-trained audio feature extraction networkaccording to the alignment information comprises:

extracting an audio clip, corresponding to each word, from theto-be-detected audio according to the alignment information; and

inputting the audio clip to the pre-trained audio feature extractionnetwork to obtain the word-level deep audio features.

Optionally, extracting the word-level deep video features from theto-be-detected video by a pre-trained video feature extraction networkaccording to the alignment information comprises:

extracting a video clip, corresponding to each word, from theto-be-detected video according to the alignment information;

extracting multiple frames of images from the video clip;

performing down-sampling on the multiple frames of images to obtainmultiple down-sampled images;

inputting the multiple down-sampled images to a trained image featureextraction network to extract high-level features from the multipledown-sampled images; and

pooling the high-level features to obtain pooled features, and takingthe pooled features as the word-level deep video features of the videoclip.

Optionally, explicitly depicting first-order, second-order andthird-order interactive relationships of the word-level deep audiofeatures, the word-level deep video features and the word-level deeptext features to obtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each wordcomprises:

performing linear transformation on the word-level deep audio features,the word-level deep video features and the word-level deep text featuresrespectively to uniformize dimensions of the features of the differentmodalities to obtain uniformized word-level deep audio features,word-level deep video features and word-level deep text features;

adding an element, the value of which is 1, to the uniformizedword-level deep audio features, word-level deep video features andword-level deep text features respectively to obtain word-level audiofeatures, word-level video features and word-level text features addedwith the element; and

calculating a tensor product of the word-level audio features,word-level video features and word-level text features added with theelement to obtain the integrated multi-modal feature of each word.

Optionally, performing context modeling on the integrated multi-modalfeature of each word to obtain a final feature of each word comprises:

calculating, by a self-attention mechanism, the integrated multi-modalfeature of each word to obtain a multi-modal feature fused with theself-attention mechanism;

inputting the multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism to a forward LSTM network and a backward LSTM networkrespectively to obtain a hidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTMnetwork and a hidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM network;and

stitching the hidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTM networkand the hidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM network toobtain the final feature of each word.

Optionally, calculating, by a self-attention mechanism, the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word to obtain a multi-modal feature fusedwith the self-attention mechanism comprises:

figuring out an attention weight and an attention value term of eachword according to the integrated multi-modal feature of each word; and

obtaining the multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism by calculation according to the attention weight and theattention value term of each word.

Optionally, obtaining a lie classification result according to the finalfeature of each word comprises:

inputting the final feature of each word to a pooling layer, andobtaining global features by max-pooling; and

inputting the global features to a fully-connected network, andoutputting the lie classification result by the fully-connected network.

In a second aspect, the embodiments of the application provide amulti-modal lie detection apparatus, the apparatus comprises:

a to-be-detected clip input module used for inputting a to-be-detectedaudio, a to-be-detected video and a to-be-detected text, wherein theto-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and the to-be-detectedtext are three different modalities;

a short-term feature extraction module used for performing featureextraction on the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text to obtain word-level deep audio features, word-leveldeep video features and word-level deep text features;

a multi-modal feature integration module used for explicitly depictingfirst-order, second-order and third-order interactive relationships ofthe word-level deep audio features, the word-level deep video featuresand the word-level deep text features to obtain an integratedmulti-modal feature of each word;

a temporal context modeling module used for performing context modelingon the integrated multi-modal feature of each word to obtain a finalfeature of each word; and

a lie classification module used for obtaining a lie classificationresult according to the final feature of each word.

Optionally, the short-term feature extraction module comprises:

a text alignment sub-module used for acquiring alignment information ofeach word in the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text by a text alignment tool;

an audio feature extraction sub-module used for extracting theword-level deep audio features from the to-be-detected audio by apre-trained audio feature extraction network according to the alignmentinformation;

a video feature extraction sub-module used for extracting the word-leveldeep video features from the to-be-detected video by a pre-trained videofeature extraction network according to the alignment information; and

a text feature extraction sub-module used for inputting theto-be-detected text to a pre-trained text feature extraction network toextract the word-level deep text features from the to-be-detected text.

Optionally, the audio feature extraction sub-module comprises:

an audio clip extraction sub-module used for extracting an audio clip,corresponding to each word, from the to-be-detected audio according tothe alignment information; and

a deep audio feature extraction sub-module used for inputting the audioclip to the pre-trained audio feature extraction network to obtain theword-level deep audio features.

Optionally, video feature extraction sub-module comprises:

a video clip extraction sub-module used for extracting a video clip,corresponding to each word, from the to-be-detected video according tothe alignment information;

an image extraction sub-module used for extracting multiple frames ofimages from the video clip;

an image down-sampling sub-module used for performing down-sampling onthe multiple frames of images to obtain multiple down-sampled images;

a high-level feature extraction sub-module used for inputting themultiple down-sampled images to a trained image feature extractionnetwork to extract high-level features from the multiple down-sampledimages; and

a deep video feature extraction sub-module used for pooling thehigh-level features to obtain pooled features, and taking the pooledfeatures as the word-level deep video features of the video clip.

Optionally, multi-modal feature integration module comprises:

a deep feature uniformizing sub-module used for performing lineartransformation on the word-level deep audio features, the word-leveldeep video features and the word-level deep text features respectivelyto uniformize dimensions of the features of the different modalities toobtain uniformized word-level audio features, word-level video featuresand word-level text features;

an element adding sub-module used for adding an element, the value ofwhich is 1, to the uniformized word-level audio features, word-levelvideo features and word-level text features respectively to obtainword-level audio features, word-level video features and word-level textfeatures added with the element; and

a multi-modal feature integration sub-module used for calculating atensor product of the word-level audio features, word-level videofeatures and word-level text features added with the element to obtainthe integrated multi-modal feature of each word.

Optionally, the temporal context modeling module comprises:

a self-attention mechanism fusion sub-module used for calculating, by aself-attention mechanism, the integrated multi-modal feature of eachword to obtain a multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism;

a hidden-layer feature extraction sub-module used for inputting themulti-modal feature fused with the self-attention mechanism to a forwardLSTM network and a backward LSTM network respectively to obtain ahidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTM network and ahidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM network; and

a final feature stitching sub-module used for stitching the hidden-layerfeature output by the forward LSTM network and the hidden-layer featureoutput by the backward LSTM network to obtain the final feature of eachword.

Optionally, the self-attention mechanism fusion sub-module comprises:

a parameter calculation sub-module used for figuring out an attentionweight and an attention value term of each word according to theintegrated multi-modal feature of each word; and

an attention mechanism calculation sub-module used for obtaining themulti-modal feature fused with the self-attention mechanism bycalculation according to the attention weight and the attention valueterm of each word.

Optionally, the lie classification module comprises:

a pooling sub-module used for inputting the final feature of each wordto a pooling layer to obtain global features by max-pooling; and

a lie classification sub-module used for inputting the global featuresto a fully-connected network and outputting the lie classificationresult by the fully-connected network.

In a third aspect, the embodiments of the application provide anelectronic device, comprising a memory, a processor, and a computerprogram stored in the memory and capable of running on the processor,wherein when the processor executes the computer program, the steps ofthe method according to the first aspect of the application areperformed.

By adoption of the multi-modal lie detection method based on recurrentneural networks and a self-attention mechanism of the application,alignment information of each word in the input to-be-detected audio,to-be-detected video and to-be-detected text is obtained by an alignmenttool, and deep audio features of the to-be-detected audio are extractedby a pre-trained audio feature extraction network according to thealignment information of each word; deep video features of theto-be-detected video are extracted by a pre-trained video featureextraction network according to the alignment information of each word;deep text features are extracted by a pre-trained text featureextraction network, and the deep audio features, the deep video featuresand the deep text features are integrated by a tensor fusion strategy toobtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word, the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word is calculated by a self-attentionmechanism to obtain a multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism, and the multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism are input to bidirectional recurrent neural networks tocapture a long-term dependence in a language to obtain a final featureof each word; and global features are obtained by max-pooling, and a lieclassification result is output by a fully-connected network. Accordingto the invention, first-order and high-order interactive relationshipsof the multi-modal features are explicitly depicted by the tensor fusionstrategy, and modeling is explicitly performed on the first-order andhigh-order interactive relationships of feature representations of thethree modalities, namely the audio, video and text, so that multi-modalinformation is fully integrated; the context relationship of any twowords can be effectively captured by means of the bidirectional LSTM(long short-term memory) recurrent neural networks and theself-attention mechanism, temporal context modeling is effectivelycompleted, the independence of the bidirectional networks duringtemporal modeling is avoided, and the accuracy of lie detection isimproved.

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FIG. 1 is a flow diagram of a multi-modal lie detection method providedby one embodiment of the application; and

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a multi-modal lie detection apparatusprovided by one embodiment of the application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

The technical solutions of the embodiments of the application will beclearly and comprehensively described below in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings of the embodiments. Obviously, the embodiments inthe following description are merely illustrative ones, and are not allpossible ones of the application. All other embodiments obtained bythose ordinarily skilled in the art based on the following ones withoutcreative labor should also fall within the protection scope of theapplication.

In the embodiments of the invention, a pre-trained network is used toextract word-level deep feature representations, which, compared withtraditional manually extracted features, are more efficient and do notneed specific expert knowledge in the field; modeling is explicitlyperformed on first-order and higher-order interactive relationships offeature representations of three modalities, namely an audio, a videoand a text, by a tensor fusion method to fully integrate multi-modalinformation; and recurrent neural networks and a self-attentionmechanism are organically combined to capture a long-term dependence ina language, so that the independence of the two networks during temporalmodeling is avoided, thus improving the accuracy of lie detection.

Refer to FIG. 1 which is a flow diagram of a multi-modal lie detectionmethod based on recurrent neural networks and a self-attention mechanismaccording to one embodiment of the application. As shown in FIG. 1, themethod comprises the following steps:

S11: inputting a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and ato-be-detected text, wherein the to-be-detected audio, theto-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text are three differentmodalities.

In this embodiment, the to-be-detected audio and the to-be-detectedvideo are an audio and a video in the same clip, the to-be-detected textcorresponds to the to-be-detected audio and the to-be-detected video,and the audio, the video and the text are three modalities in the clip.

In this embodiment, data of these three modalities is analyzed to detectwhether what a character in the clip says is true.

Illustratively, a clip, in which one or more characters speak, is input,continuous images of the one or more characters speaking in the clip isthe to-be-detected video, an audio in the clip is the to-be-detectedaudio, and a text corresponding to the video and the audio in the clipis the to-be-detected text. For example, one character speaks in theclip, images of the character speaking in the clip is the to-be-detectedvideo, speeches spoken by the character are the to-be-detected audio,and verbal contents spoken by the person are the to-be-detected text.

S12: performing feature extraction on the to-be-detected audio, theto-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text to obtain word-leveldeep audio features, word-level deep video features and word-level deeptext features.

In this embodiment, performing feature extraction on the to-be-detectedaudio, the to-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text refers totransforming the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text into feature vectors input to a neural network, and“word-level” refers to extracting a deep audio feature, a deep videofeature and a deep text feature corresponding to each word in the inputclip.

In this embodiment, performing feature extraction on the to-be-detectedaudio, the to-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text to obtainword-level deep audio features, word-level deep video features andword-level deep text features comprises the following specific steps:

S12-1: acquiring, by a text alignment tool, alignment information ofeach word in the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text.

In this embodiment, text alignment refers to enabling contents in theto-be-detected text to be in one-to-one correspondence with contents inthe to-be-detected audio and the to-be-detected video. In the invention,to-be-detected contents are processed in words, so each word in theto-be-detected text needs to be aligned with the to-be-detected audioand the to-be-detected video, and a text including one word correspondsto an audio of the word and a video of a person speaking the word.

In this embodiment, the to-be-tested audio and the to-be-detected videoare aligned with the to-be-tested text by determining a start time andan end time, in the audio and the video in the input clip, of each wordin the to-be-detected text.

Illustratively, alignment information [b_(t),e_(t)] of each word w_(t)in each to-be-detected audio, each to-be-detected video and eachto-be-detected text may be obtained by the alignment tool, wherein b_(t)represents the start time of each word w_(t) in the input clip, ande_(t) represents the end time of each word w_(t) in the input clip. Bymeans of the text alignment tool, the start times of the words w_(t) inthe input audio, video and the text correspond to one another. Thealignment tool may be a common alignment tool, and this embodiment hasno limitation in this aspect.

S12-2: extracting the word-level deep audio features from theto-be-detected audio by a pre-trained audio feature extraction networkaccording to the alignment information.

In this embodiment, extracting the word-level deep audio features fromthe to-be-detected audio by a pre-trained audio feature extractionnetwork according to the alignment information comprises the followingspecific steps:

S12-2-1: extracting an audio clip, corresponding to each word, from theto-be-detected audio according to the alignment information.

In this embodiment, the alignment information includes the start timeand the end time of each word in the to-be-detected audio, and the audioclip, corresponding to each word, is extracted from the to-be-detectedaudio according to the start time and the end time of each word in thealignment information.

Illustratively, a corresponding audio clip s_(t) ^(a) is extracted fromthe to-be-detected audio according to the alignment information[b_(t),e_(t)] of each word w_(t) in the input clip. For example, if thealignment information of a word “hello” in the to-be-detected textindicates that the start time and the end time of the word “hello” are“00:16” and “00:17” respectively, an audio clip, from the 16th second tothe 17th second, in the to-be-detected audio may be extracted to be usedas an audio clip corresponding to the word “hello”.

S12-2-2: inputting the audio clip to the pre-trained audio featureextraction network to obtain the word-level deep audio features.

In this embodiment, the pre-trained audio feature extraction network isused to extract audio features, and the audio clip corresponding to eachword is input to the pre-trained audio feature extraction network toobtain the deep audio feature of each word.

In this embodiment, the audio feature extraction network is able totransform the input audio clip s_(t) ^(a) into a feature vector, and thefeature vector is the deep audio feature x_(t) ^(a) corresponding to theword w_(t). The audio feature extraction network is a common featureextraction network such as VGGish, and this embodiment has no limitationin this aspect.

S12-3: extracting the word-level deep video features from theto-be-detected video by a pre-trained video feature extraction networkaccording to the alignment information.

In this embodiment, extracting the word-level deep video features fromthe to-be-detected video by a pre-trained video feature extractionnetwork according to the alignment information comprises the followingspecific steps:

S12-3-1: extracting a video clip, corresponding to each word, from theto-be-detected video according to the alignment information.

In this embodiment, a method for extracting a video clip s_(t) ^(y)corresponding to each word according to the alignment information[b_(t),e_(t)] of each word w_(t) is the same as the method forextracting the audio clip corresponding to each word according to thealignment information of each word, and will no longer be detailed here.

S12-3-2: extracting multiple frames of images from the video clip.

In this embodiment, each video clip comprises multiple frames of images,and these images are extracted frame by frame to be processedsubsequently.

Illustratively, assume the frame rate of the to-be-detected video is 30frames per second and the video clip, corresponding to the word “hello”,extracted in S11-3-1 lasts for 1 second, 30 frames of images within 1second are all extracted.

S12-3-3: performing down-sampling on the multiple frames of images toobtain multiple down-sampled images.

In this embodiment, the number of sampling points is reduced bydown-sampling, such that the images can be zoomed down to a preset sizeto generate thumbnails corresponding to the images to facilitatesubsequent processing.

Illustratively, 500*500 images may be uniformly down-sampled to 128*128images.

S12-3-4: inputting the multiple down-sampled images to a trained imagefeature extraction network to extract high-level features from themultiple down-sampled images.

In this embodiment, image features of the images may be extracted byinputting the down-sampled images to the pre-trained image featureextraction network, and the image feature extraction network performsconvolutional computation on the images multiple times and extractsabstract features of the images every time of convolutional computation,such that the images are transformed into feature vectors, and thefeature vectors are high-level features of the images.

S12-3-5: pooling the high-level features to obtain pooled features, andtaking the pooled features as the word-level deep video features of thevideo clip.

In this embodiment, all the images are input a pooling layer of thefeature extraction network, and the high-level features of the imagesare further processed by the pooling layer to reduce unnecessaryparameters, such that the calculation amount is reduced, and majorfeatures of the images are reserved; and the pooled feature vectors aredeep video features x_(t) ^(v) of the video clip s_(t) ^(v).

In this embodiment, the video feature extraction network may be anetwork for extracting video features such as VGG or ResNet, and thisembodiment has no limitation in this aspect.

S12-4: inputting the to-be-detected text to a pre-trained text featureextraction network to extract the word-level deep text features from theto-be-detected text.

In this embodiment, after receiving the to-be-detected text, thepre-trained text feature extraction network extracts the deep textfeature of each word in the to-be-detected text.

Illustratively, the to-be-detected text is input to the pre-trained textfeature extraction network, then the text feature extraction networkextracts word embedding of each word w_(t) in the to-be-detected text,namely the word vector of each word w_(t), and the word vector is a deeptext feature x_(t) ^(l) corresponding to each word w_(t). The textfeature extraction network may be a common network for semanticrecognition such as word2vec, and this embodiment has no limitation inthis aspect.

S13: explicitly depicting first-order, second-order and third-orderinteractive relationships of the word-level deep audio features, theword-level deep video features and the word-level deep text features toobtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each word.

In this embodiment, to better analyze whether what the character in theinput clip says is true, the first-order, second-order and third-orderinteractive relationships of the word-level deep audio features, theword-level deep video features and the word-level deep text featuresneed to be explicitly depicted to obtain the integrated multi-modalfeature of each word, and the integrated multi-modal feature of eachword integrates interactive information of the three modalities, thusbeing able to more accurately analyze whether what the character in theinput clip says is true and improving the accuracy of lie detection.

In this embodiment, explicitly depicting first-order, second-order andthird-order interactive relationships of the word-level deep audiofeatures, the word-level deep video features and the word-level deeptext features to obtain an integrated multi-modal feature of each wordcomprise the following specific steps:

S13-1: performing linear transformation on the word-level deep audiofeatures, the word-level deep video features and the word-level deeptext features respectively to uniformize dimensions of the features ofthe different modalities to obtain uniformized word-level audiofeatures, word-level video features and word-level text features;

In this embodiment, to integrate the features of the three modalities,the deep audio features, the deep video features and the deep textfeatures need to be linearly transformed to uniformize the dimensions ofthe features of the three modalities as follows:x _(t) ^(a′) =W _(a) x _(t) ^(a)x _(t) ^(v′) =W _(v) x _(t) ^(v)x _(t) ^(l′) =W _(l) x _(t) ^(l)

Wherein, x_(t) ^(a) is the word-level deep audio features, x_(t) ^(v) isthe word-level deep video features, x_(t) ^(l) is the word-level deeptext features, W_(a) is a linear variation parameter of the deep audiofeatures, W_(v) is a linear variation parameter of the deep videofeatures, and W_(l) is a linear variation parameter of the deep textfeatures. Uniformized word-level audio features x_(t) ^(a′), uniformizedword-level deep video features x_(t) ^(v′) and uniformized word-leveldeep text features x_(t) ^(l′) are obtained by calculation.

S13-2: adding an element, the value of which is 1, to the uniformizedword-level deep audio features, word-level deep video features andword-level deep text features respectively to obtain word-level audiofeatures, word-level video features and word-level text features addedwith the element.

In this embodiment, to reserve first-order and second-order propertiesof the integrated multi-modal features, the element, the value of whichis 1, needs to be added to the uniformized word-level audio features,word-level video features and word-level text features respectively toensure explicit modeling of the first-order and second-orderrelationships of different modalities in the subsequent calculation,which is specifically implemented as follows:x _(t) ^(a″)=[x _(t) ^(a′),1]x _(t) ^(v″)′=[x _(t) ^(v′),1]x _(t) ^(l″)=[x _(t) ^(l′),1]

Wherein, x_(t) ^(a″) is the word-level audio features added with theelement, x_(t) ^(v″) is the word-level video features added with theelement, and x_(t) ^(l″) is the word-level text features added with theelement.

S13-3: calculating a tensor product of the word-level audio features,word-level video features and word-level text features added with theelement to obtain the integrated multi-modal feature of each word.

In this embodiment, tensors of the word-level audio features, word-levelvideo features and word-level text features added with the element aremultiplied to obtain the integrated multi-modal feature of each word,and the tensor product is calculated as follows:x _(t) =x _(t) ^(a″) ⊗x _(t) ^(v″) ⊗x _(t) ^(l″)

Wherein, x_(t) is the integrated multi-modal feature of each word, and ⊗is a calculation symbol of the tensor product.

In this embodiment, the tensors of the features of the three modalitiesare calculated to explicitly depict the third-order relationships ofdifferent modalities, and the element 1 is added to each feature inS13-2, so the first-order and second-order relationships of differentmodalities are reserved during tensor calculation.

S14: performing context modeling on the integrated multi-modal featureof each word to obtain a final feature of each word.

In this embodiment, after the integrated multi-modal feature of eachword is obtained in S13, it is necessary to obtain the final feature ofeach word with reference to the context.

In this embodiment, performing context modeling on the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word to obtain a final feature of each wordcomprises the following specific steps:

S14-1: calculating, by a self-attention mechanism, the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word to obtain a multi-modal feature fusedwith the self-attention mechanism.

In this embodiment, the weight of the integrated multi-modal feature ofeach word may be figured out by the self-attention mechanism, andemphases are placed on words with high weights during feature analysis,such that the accuracy of lie detection is improved. Calculating, by aself-attention mechanism, the integrated multi-modal feature of eachword to obtain a multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism comprises the following specific steps:

S14-1-1: figuring out an attention weight and an attention value term ofeach word according to the integrated multi-modal feature of each word

In this embodiment, the attention weight and attention value term ofeach word are calculated as follows:

q_(t) = W_(q)x_(t)k_(t) = W_(k)x_(t) v_(t) = W_(v)x_(t)$\alpha_{t} = {{softmax}\left( \frac{q_{t}^{T}k_{t}}{\sqrt{d}} \right)}$

Wherein, q_(t) is an attention query term, k_(t) is a key term, v_(t) isthe attention value term, α_(t) is the attention weight, W_(q), W_(k),and W_(v) are linear variation parameters, q_(t) ^(T) is a transpositionof q_(t), d is the dimension of a vector, and softmax is a function.

S14-1-2: obtaining the multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism by calculation according to the attention weight and theattention value term of each word.

In this embodiment, obtaining the multi-modal feature fused with theself-attention mechanism by calculation according to the attentionweight and the attention value term of each word comprises:

$s_{t} = {\sum\limits_{t}{\alpha_{t}v_{t}}}$

Wherein, s_(t) is the multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism of each word, and

$\sum\limits_{t}$is a weight calculation symbol.

S14-2: inputting the multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism to a forward LSTM network and a backward LSTM networkrespectively to obtain a hidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTMnetwork and a hidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM network.

In this embodiment, the bidirectional LSTM and LSTM networks may takethe mutual influence of the words into full consideration to capture thelong-term dependence of the words. The features may be expressed as:

=LSTM_(f)(s _(t),

)

=LSTM_(b)(s _(t),

)

Wherein,

represents a forward feature,

represents a backward feature, LSTM_(f)( ) represents forward networkcalculation, LSTM_(b)( ) represents backward network calculation,

represents the feature of a previous word,

represents a previous memory unit,

represents the feature of a later word, and

represents a later memory unit.

S14-3: stitching the hidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTMnetwork and the hidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM networkto obtain the final feature of each word.

In this embodiment, the final feature obtained by stitching thehidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTM network and thehidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM network may beexpressed as:h _(t)=[

]

Wherein, h_(t) represents the final feature of each word.

S15: obtaining a lie classification result according to the finalfeature of each word.

In this embodiment, obtaining a lie classification result according tothe final feature of each word comprises the following specific steps:

S15-1: inputting the final feature of each word to a pooling layer, andobtaining global features by max-pooling.

In this embodiment, the final feature of each word is a final featurevector corresponding to each word, these feature vectors are input tothe pooling layer, the global features of all words in the input clipmay be obtained by max-pooling and are overall features of the words inthe input clip, and whether each word in the input clip is true may bedetermined by comparing the features of true words and lies learned bythe neural networks with the global features.

Illustratively, clips marked with true words and lies are used as atraining set to train a lie detection network to obtain a trained liedetection network to recognize lies in the input clip. When the liedetection network is trained, whether each word spoken by each characterin the clips input for training is true is marked, and then the liedetection network can learn video, audio and text features of true wordsand lies spoken by the characters. After the lie detection network istrained, the video, audio and text of the to-be-detected clip are inputto the lie detection network, then the lie detection network extractsthe global features of each word in the to-be-detected clip through theabove steps, and whether each word in the input clip is true may bedetermined by comparing the features of true words and lies with theglobal features of each word.

S15-2: inputting the global features to a fully-connected network, andoutputting the lie classification result by the fully-connected network.

In this embodiment, the fully-connected network functions as aclassifier, each word in the input clip is classified according to theglobal features, and the classification result, which indicates whetherthe word is true, is output after classification, so that a liedetection task is completed.

Based on the same inventive concept, one embodiment of the applicationprovides a multi-modal lie detection apparatus 200. Refer to FIG. 2which is a schematic diagram of the multi-modal lie detection apparatusprovided by one embodiment of the application. As shown, the multi-modallie detection apparatus based on recurrent neural networks and aself-attention mechanism comprises:

a to-be-detected clip input module 201 used for inputting ato-be-detected audio, a to-be-detected video and a to-be-detected text,wherein the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text are three different modalities;

a short-term feature extraction module 202 used for performing featureextraction on the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text to obtain word-level deep audio features, word-leveldeep video features and word-level deep text features;

a multi-modal feature integration module 203 used for explicitlydepicting first-order, second-order and third-order interactiverelationships of the word-level deep audio features, the word-level deepvideo features and the word-level deep text features to obtain anintegrated multi-modal feature of each word;

a temporal context modeling module 204 used for performing contextmodeling on the integrated multi-modal feature of each word to obtain afinal feature of each word; and

a lie classification module 205 used for obtaining a lie classificationresult according to the final feature of each word.

Optionally, the short-term feature extraction module comprises:

a text alignment sub-module used for acquiring alignment information ofeach word in the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text by a text alignment tool;

an audio feature extraction sub-module used for extracting theword-level deep audio features from the to-be-detected audio by apre-trained audio feature extraction network according to the alignmentinformation;

a video feature extraction sub-module used for extracting the word-leveldeep video features from the to-be-detected video by a pre-trained videofeature extraction network according to the alignment information; and

a text feature extraction sub-module used for inputting theto-be-detected text to a pre-trained text feature extraction network toextract the word-level deep text features from the to-be-detected text.

Optionally, the audio feature extraction sub-module comprises:

an audio clip extraction sub-module used for extracting an audio clip,corresponding to each word, from the to-be-detected audio according tothe alignment information; and

a deep audio feature extraction sub-module used for inputting the audioclip to the pre-trained audio feature extraction network to obtain theword-level deep audio features.

Optionally, video feature extraction sub-module comprises:

a video clip extraction sub-module used for extracting a video clip,corresponding to each word, from the to-be-detected video according tothe alignment information;

an image extraction sub-module used for extracting multiple frames ofimages from the video clip;

an image down-sampling sub-module used for performing down-sampling onthe multiple frames of images to obtain multiple down-sampled images;

a high-level feature extraction sub-module used for inputting themultiple down-sampled images to a trained image feature extractionnetwork to extract high-level features from the multiple down-sampledimages; and

a deep video feature extraction sub-module used for pooling thehigh-level features to obtain pooled features, and taking the pooledfeatures as the word-level deep video features of the video clip.

Optionally, multi-modal feature integration module comprises:

a deep feature uniformizing sub-module used for performing lineartransformation on the word-level deep audio features, the word-leveldeep video features and the word-level deep text features respectivelyto uniformize dimensions of the features of the different modalities toobtain uniformized word-level audio features, word-level video featuresand word-level text features;

an element adding sub-module used for adding an element, the value ofwhich is 1, to the uniformized word-level audio features, word-levelvideo features and word-level text features respectively to obtainword-level audio features, word-level video features and word-level textfeatures added with the element; and

a multi-modal feature integration sub-module used for calculating atensor product of the word-level audio features, word-level videofeatures and word-level text features added with the element to obtainthe integrated multi-modal feature of each word.

Optionally, the temporal context modeling module comprises:

a self-attention mechanism fusion sub-module used for calculating, by aself-attention mechanism, the integrated multi-modal feature of eachword to obtain a multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism;

a hidden-layer feature extraction sub-module used for inputting themulti-modal feature fused with the self-attention mechanism to a forwardLSTM network and a backward LSTM network respectively to obtain ahidden-layer feature output by the forward LSTM network and ahidden-layer feature output by the backward LSTM network; and

a final feature stitching sub-module used for stitching the hidden-layerfeature output by the forward LSTM network and the hidden-layer featureoutput by the backward LSTM network to obtain the final feature of eachword.

Optionally, the self-attention mechanism fusion sub-module comprises:

a parameter calculation sub-module used for figuring out an attentionweight and an attention value term of each word according to theintegrated multi-modal feature of each word; and

an attention mechanism calculation sub-module used for obtaining themulti-modal feature fused with the self-attention mechanism bycalculation according to the attention weight and the attention valueterm of each word.

Optionally, the lie classification module comprises:

a pooling sub-module used for inputting the final feature of each wordto a pooling layer to obtain global features by max-pooling; and

a lie classification sub-module used for inputting the global featuresto a fully-connected network and outputting the lie classificationresult by the fully-connected network.

Based on the same inventive concept, another embodiment of theapplication provides an electronic device, comprising a memory, aprocessor, and a computer program stored in the memory and capable ofrunning on the processor, wherein when the processor executes thecomputer program, the steps of the multi-modal lie detection methodbased on recurrent neural networks and a self-attention mechanism in anyone above-mentioned embodiment of the application are performed.

The embodiment of the apparatus is basically identical with theembodiment of the method, and thus is briefly described, and relevantcontents may be understood with reference to the description of theembodiment of the method.

The embodiments in this specification are described progressively, thedifferences from other embodiments are emphatically stated in eachembodiment, and the similarities of these embodiments may becross-referenced.

Those skilled in the art would appreciate that the embodiments of theapplication can be provided as a method, an apparatus or a computerprogram product. So, the embodiments of the application may becompletely hardware embodiments, completely software embodiments, orembodiments combining software and hardware. In addition, theembodiments of the application may be in the form of a computer programproduct to be implemented on one or more computer-available storagemedia (including, but not limited to, a disk memory, a CD-ROM, anoptical memory, and the like) comprising computer-available programcodes.

The embodiments of the application are described with reference to theflow diagram and/or block diagram of the method, terminal device(system) and computer program product provided by the embodiments of theapplication. It should be understood that each process and/or block inthe flow diagram and/or block diagram and the combinations of processesand/or blocks in the flow diagram and/or block diagram can beimplemented by computer program instructions. These computer programinstructions can be configured in a general-purpose computer, aspecial-purpose computer, an embedded processor, or a processor of otherprogrammable data processing terminals to create a machine, so that theinstructions can be executed by the computer or the processor of otherprogrammable data processing terminals to create an apparatus forrealizing specific functions in one or more processes in the flowdiagram and/or in one or more blocks in the block diagram.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in acomputer-readable memory that can guide the computer or other programdata processing terminals to work in a specific manner, so that theinstructions stored in the computer-readable memory can create a productincluding an instruction apparatus, and the instruction apparatusimplements specific functions in one or more processes of the flowdiagram and/or one or more blocks in the block diagram.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded on a computer orother programmable data processing terminal devices, so that thecomputer or other programmable terminal devices can perform a series ofoperation steps to carry out processing realized by the computer, andthe instructions are executed on the computer or other programmableterminal devices to realize specific functions in one or more processesin the flow diagram and/or one or more block diagrams in the blockdiagram.

Although the preferred embodiments of the application have beendescribed above, those skilled in the art who have known the basiccreative concept of the application can make different alterations andmodifications to these embodiments. So, the appended claims are intendedto include the preferred embodiments and all alterations andmodifications made within the scope of the embodiments of theapplication.

Finally, it should be noted that relational terms such as “first” and“second” in this specification are merely used to distinguish one entityor operation from the other one, and do not definitely indicate or implythat these entities or operations have any actual relations orsequences. In addition, the term “comprise” or “include” or othervariations are intended to refer to non-exclusive inclusion, so that aprocess, method, article or terminal device comprising a series ofelements not only comprises these elements listed, but also comprisesother elements that are not clearly listed, or inherent elements of theprocess, method, article or terminal device. Unless otherwise clearlyspecified, an element defined by the expression “comprise a” shall notexclusive of other identical elements in a process, method, article orterminal device comprising said element.

The multi-modal lie detection method and apparatus and the deviceprovided by the application are introduced in detail above, specificexamples are used in this specification to expound the principle andimplementation of the application, and the description of the aboveembodiments is merely used to assist those skilled in the art inunderstanding the method and core concept thereof of the application. Inaddition, those ordinarily skilled in the art can make changes to thespecific implementation and application scope based on the concept ofthe application. So, the contents of the specification should not beconstrued as limitations of the application.

What is claimed is:
 1. A multi-modal lie detection method, wherein themethod comprises: inputting a to-be-detected audio, a to-be-detectedvideo and a to-be-detected text, wherein the to-be-detected audio, theto-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text are three differentmodalities; performing feature extraction on the to-be-detected audio,the to-be-detected video and the to-be-detected text to obtainword-level deep audio features, word-level deep video features andword-level deep text features; explicitly depicting first-order,second-order and third-order interactive relationships of the word-leveldeep audio features, the word-level deep video features and theword-level deep text features to obtain an integrated multi-modalfeature of each word; performing context modeling on the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word to obtain a final feature of each word;and obtaining a lie classification result according to the final featureof each word; wherein performing context modeling on the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word to obtain a final feature of each wordcomprises: calculating, by a self-attention mechanism, the integratedmulti-modal feature of each word to obtain a multi-modal feature fusedwith the self-attention mechanism; inputting the multi-modal featurefused with the self-attention mechanism to a forward LSTM network and abackward LSTM network respectively to obtain a hidden-layer featureoutput by the forward LSTM network and a hidden-layer feature output bythe backward LSTM network; and stitching the hidden-layer feature outputby the forward LSTM network and the hidden-layer feature output by thebackward LSTM network to obtain the final feature of each word.
 2. Themethod according to claim 1, wherein performing feature extraction onthe to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text to obtain word-level deep audio features, word-leveldeep video features and word-level deep text features comprises:acquiring, by a text alignment tool, alignment information of each wordin the to-be-detected audio, the to-be-detected video and theto-be-detected text; extracting the word-level deep audio features fromthe to-be-detected audio by a pre-trained audio feature extractionnetwork according to the alignment information; extracting theword-level deep video features from the to-be-detected video by apre-trained video feature extraction network according to the alignmentinformation; and inputting the to-be-detected text to a pre-trained textfeature extraction network to extract the word-level deep text featuresfrom the to-be-detected text.
 3. The method according to claim 2,wherein extracting the word-level deep audio features from theto-be-detected audio by a pre-trained audio feature extraction networkaccording to the alignment information comprises: extracting an audioclip, corresponding to each word, from the to-be-detected audioaccording to the alignment information; and inputting the audio chip tothe pre-trained audio feature extraction network to obtain theword-level deep audio features.
 4. The method according to claim 2,wherein extracting the word-level deep video features from theto-be-detected video by a pre-trained video feature extraction networkaccording to the alignment information comprises: extracting a videoclip, corresponding to each word, from the to-be-detected videoaccording to the alignment information; extracting multiple frames ofimages from the video clip; performing down-sampling on the multipleframes of images to obtain multiple down-sampled images; inputting themultiple down-sampled images to a trained image feature extractionnetwork to extract high-level features from the multiple down-sampledimages; and pooling the high-level features to obtain pooled features,and taking the pooled features as the word-level deep video features ofthe video clip.
 5. The method according to claim 1, wherein explicitlydepicting first-order, second-order and third-order interactiverelationships of the word-level deep audio features, the word-level deepvideo features and the word-level deep text features to obtain anintegrated multi-modal feature of each word comprises: performing lineartransformation on the word-level deep audio features, the word-leveldeep video features and the word-level deep text features respectivelyto uniformize dimensions of the features of the different modalities toobtain uniformized word-level deep audio features, word-level deep videofeatures and word-level deep text features; adding an element, the valueof which is 1, to the uniformized word-level deep audio features,word-level deep video features and word-level deep text featuresrespectively to obtain word-level audio features, word-level videofeatures and word-level text features added with the element; andcalculating a tensor product of the word-level audio features,word-level video features and word-level text features added with theelement to obtain the integrated multi-modal feature of each word. 6.The method according to claim 1, wherein calculating, by aself-attention mechanism, the integrated multi-modal feature of eachword to obtain a multi-modal feature fused with the self-attentionmechanism comprises: figuring out an attention weight and an attentionvalue term of each word according to the integrated multi-modal featureof each word; and obtaining the multi-modal feature fused with theself-attention mechanism by calculation according to the attentionweight and the attention value term of each word.
 7. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein obtaining a lie classification resultaccording to the final feature of each word comprises: inputting thefinal feature of each word to a pooling layer, and obtaining globalfeatures by max-pooling; and inputting the global features to afully-connected network, and outputting the lie classification result bythe fully-connected network.
 8. An electronic device, comprising amemory, a processor, and a computer program stored in the memory andcapable of running on the processor, wherein when the processor executesthe computer program, the steps of the method according to claim 1 areperformed.